PDT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (JH Premium Dividend | NYSE:PDT)

The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income consistent with modest growth of capital for holders of its common shares. The Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of dividend-paying preferred stocks and common equity securities. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in dividend-paying securities and invests more than 25% of total assets in the utilities industry. Preferred stocks and debt obligations in which the Fund invests are rated investment grade by Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s at the time of investment, or will be preferred stock of issuers of investment-grade senior debt.

JH Premium Dividend trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol PDT.

As of January 23, 2026, PDT stock price declined to $12.83 with 119,486 million shares trading.

PDT has a beta of 0.50, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PDT has a correlation of 0.51 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PDT has a market cap of $631.05 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, PDT traded as high as $13.55 and as low as $8.77.

PDT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +7.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +14.2%. In the last 3 month period, PDT fell short of the market, returning -0.2%, while SPY returned +2.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks PDT has outperformed the stock market by returning +1.9%, while SPY returned -0.7%.

PDT support price is $12.83 and resistance is $13.01 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that PDT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.